4. Tuesday, June 26thThe chicken set-up is complete.Set-up = house the run/cageThank you Mr. Riley Smith for your hard work.

5. Thursday, June 28thFive sweet RIR's came to live at our house. Thank you Trail!

6. Friday, June 29thThe official chicken swapping began!! Pat gave Trail 4 for his birthday and traded him for 4 RIRs. Pat gave my children 4 for their birthdays. Pat and Trail did all the hard work. I pretty much did nothing.

My kids loved every minute of the squawking ruckus of catching chickens. (Yes, Scout is wearing a fleece scarf in the 100 degree weather and could not be convinced otherwise.)

Trail comes home with us. These alternated back and forth between swimming, jumping on the trampoline, and sitting in the chicken house.

This girl is sooo happy!! Can you tell it? She is getting to do all the things she loves, with her beloved Trail.

I'm not brave enough to get any, I figure that we fight with coyotes enough keeping cats around, chickens would be three times as tough to keep around... ugh.Thankfully we get eggs from an older couple at church, so, all is well.

I am married to Riley. We are the proud parents of Miss Scout and two little guys, Reno and Ranger. I'm a stay-at-home mom...well kind of. We have lots of fun going to the feedyard, ranch rodeos, team ropings (not a funny joke....we enjoy it) junking, and hanging out with family. Follow us for a little bit of everything.